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⚙️ A spiked wheel 🐎 To prick with spur
to rowel

to rowel

9.9
To touch a horse with a spiked spur to make it move faster
  • verb
  • /ˈraʊəl/
  • Specialized
translation icon : pinchar
  • She roweled her horse gently to guide it around the turn.

Examples

  • To make the horse move quickly, he roweled it during the race.

  • So ring the highest bodies overhead where immaculate light collects and stars are roweled about, sending down virtue.

    Fiction book (1991)

  • The rider roweled his horse to encourage it to gallop faster.

Synonyms

to giddap
vsto rowel
  • Informal
1 9.9

To make a horse or mule go faster by calling

is a precise prick with a small spiked wheel on a metal spur

Antonyms

to calm
962 1.0

Make a person or animal less upset

How Forceful

to drive
458 1.0
to rowel
  • Specialized
9.9
to prod
4 3.7
to spur
81 4.1
to nudge
33 3.8

Surface Forms

rowel infinitive
roweled past
roweled past participle
roweling present participle
rowels third person singular

Etymology

Rowel as a verb comes from the same root rota ('wheel') because riders used that tiny wheel to touch a horse. So to rowel means to prick or encourage a horse with a spur.